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History of Imaging: A Look at Photography?s Roots

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May 26th 2012 - 0 comments

In Episode 1 of the Framed Network series Film, hosts and photographers Tanja Lippert, Ryan Muirhead and Tia Reagan take an in depth look at the history of photography. If you love the analog way of life then you’re going to want to stick around and watch the entire thing, because when Tanja, Ryan and [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/47/68/29/476829.gif[/IMG]

CloudPic: A Universal Adapter That Connects Your Camera to Your Phone

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May 26th 2012 - 0 comments

The ability to connect your camera to your smartphone wirelessly is starting to really gather some steam. Unfortunately, up until now, that technology usually required a WiFi connection and an adapter that often cost some serious dinero. But if all you’re looking to do is share the photos you take instantly sans WiFi network, you [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/47/68/11/476811.jpeg[/IMG]

Do You Want It All To Be Instant?

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May 26th 2012 - 0 comments

I’m sure you can see the writing on the wall. As more and more apps appear on cell phones, and point and shoot cameras, the immediacy of being able to edit images has become a large trend in every area of photography except perhaps DSLR shooting. Even then, tablets tethered, via a wire or wirelessly, [...]Post originally from: Digital Photography Tips. Check out our more Photography Tips at Photography Tips for Beginners, Portrait Photography Tips and Wedding Photography Tips. Do You Want It All To Be Instant?[IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/47/68/01/476801.gif[/IMG]

Behind The Scenes: Parkour ?Double Gravity? Photo Shoot

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May 26th 2012 - 0 comments

When Hamburg, Germany-based photographer Florian Bison first saw a video of parkour, he was mesmerized by the concept and curious as to how he could integrate it into a photography project. That’s when he came up with the Double Gravity series, a mixture of real and parkour/camera created gravity. The video above offers a behind-the-scenes [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/47/67/88/476788.gif[/IMG]

Choosing the Best Canon Speedlite Flash for Your Needs

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May 26th 2012 - 0 comments

As Canon continues to expand the Speedlite family, more photographers struggle to know which flash to buy. So let’s take a quick run through the current Speedlite lineup, from low end to high end, to see if we can determine which flash is right for your needs. SPEEDLITE 270EX II Starting with the least expensive [...]Post originally from: Digital Photography Tips. Check out our more Photography Tips at Photography Tips for Beginners, Portrait Photography Tips and Wedding Photography Tips. Choosing the Best Canon Speedlite Flash for Your Needs[IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/47/67/16/476716.jpeg[/IMG]

Photographer Threatened with Lawsuit After Protecting His Copyright

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May 25th 2012 - 0 comments

After discovering that multiple websites had used one of his photos without permission, photographer Jay Lee began sending out DMCA takedown notifications to web hosts in an attempt to protect his copyright. One of the websites was owned by an attorney named Candice Shwagger, who had 14 websites temporarily taken offline due to the takedown [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/47/65/93/476593.jpeg[/IMG]

Compact Camera?s Shutter Mechanism Tested for its Top Speed

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May 25th 2012 - 0 comments

If you think 14fps on a high end DSLR is fast, check out this video by Mike’s Electric Stuff. In it, he does an extreme teardown of a cheap Panasonic Lumix compact camera and spends 30 minutes exploring and explaining the various components. At about 18 minutes in, he hooks up a signal generator to [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/47/65/82/476582.gif[/IMG]

InstaCRT: A Camera App That Offers the World?s First ?Real? Filter

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May 25th 2012 - 0 comments

Hovering somewhere between “novel idea” and “pointlessly stupid,” InstaCRT is a new iOS app that bills itself as “the world’s first real camera filter.” Photographs processed through the app are given a CRT monitor look that doesn’t involve any digital fakery. Instead, your photo is actually sent to the creators’ machine located in Stockholm, Sweden, [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/47/65/41/476541.jpeg[/IMG]

Lunacycle: Photographing and Animating a Lunar Cycle

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May 25th 2012 - 0 comments

Since November 2011 I?d been thinking about an astrophotography project: take a photo of the moon each day from full moon to full moon, then combine it into a seamless movie that looks as if someone had moved the sun around the moon for one minute. I found similar videos, but most were simulations done [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/47/65/22/476522.jpeg[/IMG]

Photographer Exhibits Photos Overhead, Provides Mirrors for Viewing Them

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May 25th 2012 - 0 comments

For her most recent exhibition, Brooklyn-based Dutch photographer Anouk Kruithof wanted to do something revolutionary, to change the way we experience the typical art exhibit — thus was born her exhibit “Untitled: I’ve Taken Too Many Photos, I’ve Never Taken Any Photos.” Two choices make the exhibit unique: First, Kruithof posted signs around her neighborhood [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/47/65/06/476506.jpeg[/IMG]

Why Your Digital Camera?s GPS Might Not Work in China

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May 25th 2012 - 0 comments

It’s strange to think that cartography laws could somehow affect the functionality of your camera overseas, but a recent article on Ogle Earth points out that just such a thing has been going on with GPS-enabled cameras as far back as 2010. The whole “investigation” into the matter began with the release of the Panasonic [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/47/64/72/476472.jpeg[/IMG]

Hack Your Exif Data from the Command Line: Five Fun Uses for Exiftool

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May 25th 2012 - 0 comments

It happens every time you press the shutter. Tiny circuits spring into action and furiously record the information from every sensor pixel onto your memory card. But pixel information is not all that is recorded. With every shutter press, your camera records dozens of interesting details about how the photo was taken. These details are [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/47/64/59/476459.jpeg[/IMG]

Landscapes: Weekly Photography Challenge

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May 25th 2012 - 0 comments

After our post earlier in the week by the title of 5 Tips for Shooting Landscapes with Greater Impact – your challenge this week is to take and share a landscape photo. Feel free to take landscapes in what ever setting you are in – you might be shooting in a rural area, shooting seascapes, [...]Post originally from: Digital Photography Tips. Check out our more Photography Tips at Photography Tips for Beginners, Portrait Photography Tips and Wedding Photography Tips. Landscapes: Weekly Photography Challenge[IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/47/64/51/476451.jpeg[/IMG]

Viral Solar Eclipse Ring Proposal Photo

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May 25th 2012 - 0 comments

This amazing image has been going viral on the Internet, usually accompanied with the caption: A man in Japan effectively used the solar eclipse to propose to his girlfriend. Sadly — sorry to burst your bubble — it’s not an actual photograph, but a composite image created by combining three photographs with the iOS app [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/47/64/41/476441.jpeg[/IMG]

First Sample Video Shot with Google?s Camera Glasses

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May 25th 2012 - 0 comments

Yesterday we shared some new sample photos published by Google showing what its Project Glass prototype camera glasses are currently capable of. The video above is the first sample video captured using the glasses, and is a short 15-second clip showing a first person view of someone doing flips on a trampoline. With current cameras, [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/47/64/13/476413.gif[/IMG]

So You Are Interested in Becoming a Photographer

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May 25th 2012 - 0 comments

I try to stay involved as much as I can with students studying photography at different institutions in the area. Every year I go back to RIT and do a lecture on the business of photography and I feel it’s important that I do so. Recently I got an email from a young photographer asking [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/47/63/92/476392.jpeg[/IMG]

Unexpected Tornadoes Make for Some Unforgettable Wedding Photos

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May 25th 2012 - 0 comments

Caleb and Candra Pence had a couple unexpected guests crash their wedding in Kansas last Saturday: tornadoes! The two twisters touched down roughly 10 miles away during the ceremony, but — luckily for everyone involved — were not moving. Wedding photographer Cate Eighmey took advantage of the rare situation by having the newlyweds pose with [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/47/63/78/476378.jpeg[/IMG]

Photography Under the Stars

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May 25th 2012 - 0 comments

A Guest Post by Phil Hart – author of the Shooting Stars eBook (use the code DPSTARS for a 20% discount). Neil Creek has previously shared some of my astrophotography work on DPS, in the post Ten Astounding Astrophotos by Phil Hart. But whereas that post featured what I call ‘astrophotography’, with telescopes, tracking equatorial [...]Post originally from: Digital Photography Tips. Check out our more Photography Tips at Photography Tips for Beginners, Portrait Photography Tips and Wedding Photography Tips. Photography Under the Stars[IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/47/63/60/476360.jpeg[/IMG]

Google Shows Off Camera Glasses and More Sample Photos at Conference

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May 24th 2012 - 0 comments

Google Glass team member Max Braun took to the stage at the Google+ Photography Conference yesterday to show off a prototype device, talk about the project’s potential impact in photography, and show off some new sample photographs. He states, We see glass as an evolution of cell phone photography. It’s the next step of the [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/47/62/46/476246.jpeg[/IMG]